SFX Spurious Awards Of The Week

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MUPPETS MASH-UP OF THE WEEK

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Okay, the Muppets mash-up meme is getting a little passé now. And technically this isn’t from the past week but is two months old. But we missed it when it first came out, and now we’ve been alerted to its presence, it would be criminal not to share. Because it’s brilliant.
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UNEXPECTED SF TWIST OF THE WEEK

The latest in the Driver series of games, Driver San Francisco is out today. “What’s that got to do with SFX ?” we hear you cry. Well, in a moment of inspiration/madness the developers Ubisoft Reflections have given the latest in the formerly straight-laced cops ’n’ robbers racing series an ingenious SF twist. It’s all gone Life On Mars , y’see, with the main character, Tanner, in a coma and able to “shift” between different bodies and cars. What next, teleporting in Gran Turismo ?
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WEDDING PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Fans recreate famous publicity image at wedding. As posted on the Battlestar Galactica Facebook page (opens in new tab) .
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BEST USE FOR POST-ITS OF THE WEEK

Check out the window designs created by French office workers from the contents of the stationery cupboard.
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MOST UNCOMFORTABLE LOOKING SPECTACLES OF THE WEEK

If you thought 3D specs at the cinema were a pain, wait till you try strapping this to your face. It’s a new Sony headset games console which was originally announced earlier this year when the accompanying artist’s impression didn’t make it look quite so clunky. Now it looks like some craft out of a ’60s Gerry Anderson show. Anybody else reminded of those hover board things from Stingray ? Despite the aesthetic changes Sony assures us in its press release that the console retains the same “spec”s. Ho ho ho.
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BITE-SIZED DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK

Steampunk: it’s not a genre, it’s a lifestyle choice. It’s great to have a documentary like this that isn’t condescending, but this is almost too cool to take seriously. And we’re not sure what the ’70s lift music in the background has to do with steampunk.

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WOULD BE “CARRY ON” SCRIPTWRITER OF THE WEEK

Andrew Garfield talking about the consideration given to the groinal bulge in his costume: “Um, yeah, there are long discussions about this stuff. There has to be because it’s got to be handled with sensitivity. It has to be non-offensive, which takes some tools.” Ooooooooooh, matron.

NAUTICAL DISCOVERIES OF THE WEEK

Two things we discovered about ships at the Bristol harbour festival: they have warp speed and they use the Force.

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DIRECTOR IN A GLASS HOUSE THROWING STONES OF THE WEEK

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MONKEY NUTS OF THE WEEK

The pesky primate logo for Seth Green’s production company shows Cowboys And Aliens how it should be done (the damsel at the end is a cameo by Green himself, apparently… no we’re not making it up. That’s what he says!)

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UNLOVED LETTER OF THE WEEK

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From Bricks To Bothans (opens in new tab) (aka, FBTB ), a website dedicated to Lego Star Wars , is currently running a competition based on an absolutely genius idea. Genius, because it’s so obvious. Yow know how in Star Wars there are X-Wings, Y-Wings and A-Wings? What about the rest of the alphabet? (Cue some smart-arse going, “But in the Star Wars universe they used Aurek-Besh alphabet so they shouldn’t have X, Y or A anything!” Cue everybody else going, “Oh, piss off you killjoy.”) So FBTB has been asking members to send in their own Lego ships to represent the entire alphabet, and now voting is going on to find a winner for the best ship design. One thing’s for sure. It won’t be an N-Wing. Nobody sent in a ship in the shape of an N. We’re sure there’s a Sesame Street song in the making there.

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CAPED CRUSADERSAURUS OF THE WEEK

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh decided to dress up their beloved Tyrannosaurus Rex in honour of a certain big Hollywood movie coming to film in the city.

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SCARY BALLS OF THE WEEK

For Germany’s number one horror channel, spray gun artist Oliver Paass worked more than three weeks on designing 360° layouts for bowling balls. The bowling balls were like chopped of heads, who were then distributed in several German bowling alleys. (On a side note – does Germany produce any music any more that doesn’t sound like Rammstein?)

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